# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Runtime notices leaking into user message history

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #108452: Agent loop injects runtime notifications as synthetic user-role messages (max-iterations + compaction continue)
- PR #108457: fix(agent): keep runtime controls out of transcripts
- PR #108459: fix(agent): keep runtime notices out of user-authored history

These items concern agent loop behavior where internal runtime notifications (such as max-iterations and compaction signals) are being injected as synthetic user-role messages. The work focuses on keeping such runtime controls separate from user-authored conversation history.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #108452: Agent loop injects runtime notifications as synthetic user-role messages (max-iterations + compaction continue)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#108457: fix(agent): keep runtime controls out of transcripts**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_rotation_state.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py`, `tests/agent/test_run_agent.py`
- **#108459: fix(agent): keep runtime notices out of user-authored history**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#108452`, `#100670`, `#108457`, `#108452`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/message_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_api_content_sidecar.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_rotation_state.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`